My art, My life
Year: 2004? can’t remember
Medium: Ballpoint pen
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, notebook pocket
Details: I always cross items out after I complete them. Based on this semester-long doodle, it appears that I never did much of any reading in my MINS 219 class :) Honestly, I’m surpised I still even have this notebook.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Journal Pages.
Title: Mystery Folding Card
Year: 2002
Medium: Colored Pencil, Ink Pen
Format: approximately 4″ x 6″ each
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Copyright © 2002 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Colored Pencil, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Ink.
Title: Newsletter Comps
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite, Ink Pen
Format: approximately 4″ x 5″ each
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Copyright © 2002 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Graphite, Ink.
Title: Poster Comps
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite, Sharpie
Format: approximately 2″ x 5″ each
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Copyright © 2002 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Graphite, Marker.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my fourth assignment for this class. This is not the original orientation of the photograph. I’ve cropped it for a better composition. It has also been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast. I did end up using this photograph for my final class project.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my third assignment for this class. This is not the original orientation of the photograph. I’ve cropped it for a better composition. It has also been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast. I did end up using this photograph for my final class project. Another side note, my professor always liked this photograph, but honestly, I’m not very fond of it. It’s almost a little too chaotic for me.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my second assignment for this class. This is not the original orientation of the photograph. I’ve cropped it for a better composition. It has also been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast. I did end up using this photograph for my final class project.
Copyright © 2007 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Medium: Pen
Format: 8.5″ x 11″
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Graphic Design Class, Ink.
Title: ‘Monkey Face, Smith Rock’
Year: 2004
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: 4.5″ x 8.5″, unframed
Source: A photograph on a Prana catalog cover, can’t remember which year
Details: Monkey Face is a rock formation in Smith Rock, Terrabone, Oregon. It’s a popular climbing destination for rock climbers from around the world.
Copyright © 2004 Berta C. Roebuck
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite.
Title: ‘Pumpkin Art’
Year: 2002
Medium: Final: photocopy. Studies: black tape, text clippings, Wite-Out, and black marker
Format: 18″ x 24″
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Details: For this assignment we had to create an 18″ x 24″ black & white promotional poster by starting with only black tape. Our initial study couldn’t be larger than a few square inches. The process involved us creating this initial study, blowing it up to about one-third of the size it needed to be, adding text and black marker touch-ups where appropriate, and blowing it up to its final size. Of course it wasn’t that easy. I think I performed all but the last step at least 3 or 4 times. It was surprisingly a very challenging project. I believe I got B+ on the final piece (I never could seem to get an A in this class. The professor was tough!).
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Here are a few of the studies I did for this piece…
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Graphic Design Class.
Body of Work: Idea Sketches
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite, Prismacolor markers
Format: approximately 9″ x 11″ each, unframed
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Details: I have to admit that these idea sketches were my least favorite part of the entire class. Not because they weren’t valuable or fun, but because each time the professor assigned them to us for homework we had to create about 5 to 10 pages worth. After a while it becomes extremely difficult to remain creative. Hence the reason some of my sketches were kind of lame. Well, at least I think so.
One other thing I’d like to point out is that each of these pages has a theme. From left to right, top to bottom…
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Marker.
Title: ‘The Mixing of a Cosmopolitan’
Year: 2002
Medium: Pen, Prismacolor markers
Format: 11″ x 17″, unframed
Class: Visual Communication Concepts (CDES 132) at Chico State
Details: This was an assignment covering ideation drawing. The goal was to describe how to make a drink with imagery and spot color, using as few words as possible. Oh yeah, and the professor only gave me a B+! Maybe because I was color-blind when I did this. I screwed up when coloring in the sweet & sour. I accidentally started with the red instead of green. Ooops! I was also supposed to base my type off of a real font, but I made up my own. That could be another reason for the B+. :)
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Here are a couple of the studies I did for this piece…
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphic Design Class, Ink, Marker.
Title: ‘Joshua, Age 2′
Year: 2000
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: Approximately 8″ x 10″, unframed
Details: This is a drawing of my nephew, Joshua, when he was 2 years old. It was drawn from a photograph I took for a black & white photography class at Chico State in 1999.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite.
Title: ‘Learning to Walk’
Year: 2000
Medium: Taken with a Nikon N80 SLR
Photo Editing: None
Details: This is a photograph I took of my nephew, Alexander (a.k.a. Zander), at my brother Christopher’s wedding in 2000.
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Title: ‘Learning to Walk’
Year: 2001
Medium: Graphite (8h to 4b)
Format: approximately 8″ x 9″, unframed
Details: This is a drawing based off the above photograph (obviously). This drawing has quite a bit of meaning for me, actually. On the day of the wedding, Zander was wearing a shirt with sailboats on it, as depicted here in this drawing. I felt it important to include this in the drawing, when I normally probably wouldn’t have, because, to me, it symbolizes my dad’s love of sailing. My dad had passed away less than one month prior to the wedding at which this photograph was taken.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Drawings, Graphite, Photographs.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2001
Medium: Magazine clippings and a glue stick
Format: approximately 8″ x 14″, unframed
Source: National Geographic Adventure and National Geographic magazines
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Collages.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2003
Medium: Graphite (8h to 9b)
Format: 14″ x 17″, unframed
Details: For the life of me, I can’t remember exactly when I drew this. And it’s unfinished so I never dated it so I’m guessing as to the year. Oh well.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Works-in-Progress.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my first assignment for this class. I don’t remember which speed it was (probably 150), but it was printed digitally. It has been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my first assignment for this class. This is not the original orientation of the photograph. I’ve cropped it for a better composition. It has also been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite (6h to 4b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: Starting 2002, I began to have a more concentrated interest in human anatomy. I love drawing faces, hands, and especially eyes. This is around the time where I started to deviate from drawing wild cats all of the time.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Year: 1994 and 2000
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: The sunflower I drew back in high school (probably 1994). The tiger eye was drawn with oil pastels, but I don’t remember when I did it. The eye with the carnation has a story behind it too detailed to describe here, but I drew it when I was around 21 years old.
Categories: 1990 to 1994, 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite (6h to 4b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: This journal page has a few clippings of lions from my Adventure magazine, by National Geographic. The drawing in the bottom left corner was a little doodle of mine I did when I was bored in class one day. Hence the reason its on lined paper, and it was drawn with a mechanical pencil.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: Photography is one form of art I’ve always loved, but probably the one I’m leasted talented at. Nonetheless I enjoy it immensly. This particular photograph has been edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2000
Medium: Pen & Ink, Ink Wash, Graphite
Format: 11″ x 14″, Framed with a single matte of black with a white interior, followed by a 1/4 inch thick black metallic frame.
Details: I drew this for my big brother Vince in my early college years in trade for a piece of his wire art. I’m not sure of the original size since he still has this drawing, so I made a guess.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Ink, Ink Wash.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002. I think
Medium: Graphite (8h to 9b)
Format: 12″ x 17″, Framed with a single black matte with a white interior, followed by a 1/4 inch thick black metallic frame.
Details: This is my first uploaded piece of art, to commemorate my new online art portfolio.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite.